Candlebearer by Giordano Bruno(
Book
)44
editions published
between
1964
and
2008
in
3
languages
and held by
277 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Giordano Bruno was as modern in this play as in his universe filled with inhabitable worlds. NASA is right now looking for
the worlds Bruno predicted. But Bruno is downright funny in his play, as he is "dead serious" in the works for which he died.
Here we're more likely to die--laughing. Bony thinks he's bedding his lover, but it's his wife. The scientist Bart spends
every moment trying to make gold, until his ignored wife takes a lover. The teacher Manny reads his poems to his boys hoping
to attract them as they attract him. How the boys defeat Manny is humorous. Several Naples street hooligans put on security
jackets and steal from Manny and others. At least one character above is bisexual. Is this a contemporary play, or Candelaio
from nearly 440 years ago? Bruno only wrote one play, the best first play ever written. Printed in Paris in 1582, the play
waited four hundred years for the world to catch up to Bruno--not just in astronomy. Many know Giordano Bruno's martyrdom,
but nobody thinks him outrageously funny, until they read this play, and this version

Poesia e narrativa del secondo Novecento by Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti(
Book
)12
editions published
between
1961
and
1978
in
Italian and Undetermined
and held by
260 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide